26524

I am in favor of acceptance.
Lenin
6/XII [1921]

1 This refers to I. V. Stalin's proposal for the creation of a Russian-German company for trade in the East. The text of the letter contains Lenin's underlining.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
26525

I too am in favor of Stalin's proposal. I advise accelerating and verifying the execution of it.
6/XII [1921] Lenin

LETTER TO G. V. CHICHERIN
24721

December 7, 1921

Comrade Chicherin,

You may correspond with me, and for greatest speed it is best to send directly in the name of Fotieva; she will arrange a telephone conversation if necessary. I will react to events, at least to the most important ones. I am very much afraid that Ordzhonikidze's arrival at the Central Committee Plenum and at the Congress of Soviets may create one-sided information on the question of Persian policy. Therefore, if you have nonetheless decided to grant Rothstein a postponement, then it is absolutely necessary to demand from him by telephone the immediate dispatch by special courier of the most detailed points of the conditions, considerations, and proofs regarding his conflict with the Baku workers.¹

Lenin

Dictated by telephone
Printed from the typewritten text of the secretary's record

1 From December 6, 1921 to January 13, 1922, V. I. Lenin lives in Gorki (near Moscow).
2 On February 26, 1921, the government of Persia (Iran) concluded a treaty with the RSFSR, the first equal treaty in the country's history, which had enormous significance for strengthening Iran's independence. The Soviet government carefully monitored the observance of the treaty. Lenin wrote the published letter in connection with information received about disagreements between the RSFSR envoy to Persia F. A. Rothstein and leading workers of Azerbaijan on the question of implementing Soviet policy toward Persia.

NOTE TO E. A. LITTKENS
18569

[1921]

Urgent

Comrade Littkens!

I am forwarding to you a note from Comrade Preobrazhensky.¹

Politburo tomorrow (Saturday) at 7 p.m.

Agree with Preobrazhensky and Molotov i n a d v a n c e.

Lenin

1 E. A. Littkens—deputy people's commissar of enlightenment.
2 In a letter to V. I. Lenin, E. A. Preobrazhensky, chairman of the Main Administration of Professional Education of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, requested that the ration for the Main Professional Education Administration not be reduced, contrary to reductions made previously.

NOTE TO V. M. MOLOTOV
22628

To Comrade Molotov for the Politburo

Regarding Comrade Larina's¹ trip to London at the request of Krasin.

In view of Comrade Krasin's request, it is necessary to put the matter to a vote in the Politburo.² For my part, I would consider it possible to satisfy Krasin's request on two conditions: Larina is not to be allowed to take part in any negotiations either directly or indirectly. Not a single figure obtained only from Larina is to be trusted.

12/I—[19]22

Lenin

Printed from the typewritten text of the secretary's record

1 Accepted by telephone by L. A. Fotieva on January 12, 1922.
2 Yu. Larin (M. A. Lurye)—member of the presidium of Gosplan.
3 On the copy sent to V. M. Molotov, there is a record of the Politburo members' voting after telephone polling on January 12, 1922, and at the session of January 17, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RKP(b) resolved to satisfy L. B. Krasin's request "for the transfer of Comrade Larina to his disposal." To this decision V. I. Lenin added his own notes on Larina's treatment and the character of his work—in the letter to Krasin of January 19, 1922 (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 54, pp. 127–128).

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